U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley's goal for the Obamacare reform debate now underway is much simpler than overhauling America’s health care system: get a bill through the Senate and into negotiation with the U.S. House.

Grassley, a Republican, made that clear in a media call on Wednesday, telling Iowa reporters he's willing to support virtually any health care reform bill that hits the Senate floor over the next few days.

When pressed on whether he would support any bill in the Senate, Grassley suggested he would.

“I hate to say ‘anything,’ but you’re going to have a conference anyway, so getting to conference is a necessary step for me,” he said.

That includes an outright repeal of the existing Affordable Care Act with no replacement, the so-called “skinny repeal” that eliminates key elements of the law, or other variations that could be offered by senators.

He underscored the point later on Wednesday with a vote on the Senate floor. Grassley — and fellow Iowa U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst — were among 45 Republicans to vote for a measure repealing much of Obamacare without a replacement plan.

“I’ll give you a very 50,000-foot answer by saying what was said in caucus yesterday: Get something through the Senate,” Grassley answered when asked how he saw the ongoing and highly uncertain health care debate playing out in coming days.

“And ‘something’ was not very well defined,” Grassley added.

The GOP’s primary objective in the current debate, he said, is to pass a bill that can then be brought into conference — that is, negotiations with the U.S. House to find a compromise that both chambers could approve.

“Get something through the Senate that we can go to conference with the House and then during August get something worked out that can be brought back to the House and Senate that would be quote-unquote repeal and replace,” Grassley said.

The House passed its own version of an Obamacare overhaul earlier this year.

Grassley indicated he has no clear idea of what that compromise bill might look like, especially given that the House-approved bill doesn’t have enough support in the Senate and senators have yet to find their own legislation with enough votes to pass.

“But what that exactly would be, I don’t know,” said of the bill that could emerge from a House-Senate conference.